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Thanks for the clarification. I'll proceed with my current discs.

I originally purchased FSX and the Accelerator pack in 2006. Since then I am using a new computer and want to put FSX onto it. I notice on the MS web site that there is a download dated 2013. My understanding was that the original development team has been disbanded and that no new versions would be released. Hence, my confusion as to whether I should use my original discs or purchased new. Any enlightenment would be appreciated.

Well. Having done everything suggested and a few of my own ideas it appears that the only recourse is to completely reinstall FSX and the Acceleration pack. Not having done a reinstall before I was wondering whether I sould do an uninstall first or just reinstall over what is there. I have a lot of scenery and airfields install among other things so I expect that I will lose connection with those. Is there any advice before I start the process?

I cannot find a default startup flight plan

As far as I know nothing was changed between when FSX was shutdown and when it failed on startup. However, when I tried to start FSX tonight I received the message "Error loading GPS engine. The flight plan will not be used".

FSX was running fine last night but tonight I could not get past the initial screen. Any ideas?

I have done some more testing and taken into account the various other postings and concluded that the problem is occuring because I did not get credit for one waypoint so RC is trying to send me back to it. I find that when I am told to use own navigation I am considerably off the magenta line on the GPS so I have been trying to turn toward the line, which seems to upset the controller. As pointed out in the responses I should be using the direct to option at that point, which has been solving the problem. I am not sure why I am so far off course wnen I have been setting my heading according to what the controller says. However, thanks much for the help.

At full throttle I cannot get above 20 inches manifold pressure. The speed on climb is around 80 and drops steadily until the aircraft exceeds specifications. Any ideas?

I have been experiencing times when the controller suddenly says that I am off course when I am sitting on the red line on the simulator. I have traced this to the plan in RC being different from the one that was built with FSBUILD and loaded into the simulator. I have also noted that sometimes there is no rc4 file generated and am wondering exactly when the rc4 file is created.

I am running RC on an HP/Compaz mini along with IYP. RC is working ok but the problem is that the Controller window is a different size than the main window. Because it is bigger I connot see the bottom with the buttons and the departure procedure selection. Is there a way to change the size of this window in a config file? Unfortunately, the mackine seems only to support one resolution.

I am moving to a WideFS setup with the client PC an HP laptop with a 1.2 gig processor and 1 gig of memory. I will be running IYP on the client also. Because I have to plug the mic and headphones into the client PC I want to move RC there to avoid the RC sound coming out of the speakers on the Server PC. But first does anyone know of a circumvention that would allow RC to stay on the Server PC and still have the RC sound through the headphones or see any issues with moving RC to the client?

This is the first time that it has happened. I'll try it again today and see if it does it again. If it is consistant I will turn on the log, reporduce the problem and and send the log to you.

Tonight I was flying into Birmingham on final to rwy 15. I received a message from Approach to contact Tower but received no menu item to do so. Each time I received the message to contact Tower I tried first 7 and them 1 to ack and contact. The next thing I know is that RC thought that I had declared a missed approach, which I had not. Any ideas about what mighjt have caused this behavior?

I have not been using RC for some time due to personal illness but am back to flying FSX. However, I no longer can navigate to deeper menu levels. For example, I cannot ask for the QNH while in flight. I am pretty sure that I was able to do this before. Any ideas where I should start looking?

Thank you Ronzie and Chrispeel. Between the two answers I have a much better understanding of how to use SIDS and STARS. I had not realized that there was an upgrade to FSBuild so have installed that. The only question I might have now is whether I will lose any SID and/or STAR that I initially specify in FSBuild when I load the FMC from an FSBuild flight plan that was imported into FSX and is next loaded into the FMC from FSX. The reason that this question arises is something that was said in the Embraer 175 manual to the effect that any runway, SID, or STAR would be lost if the flight plan was imported directly from FSX. However, I suspect that they might be assuming that the plan was build in FSX. Will have to experiment since I assume this advice is particular to the FMC modelling for the 175.